I read a recent article in Fortune magazine by Ram Charan, who gives some good advice on managing a business in an economic downturn (I think this is actually good advice for managing in a robust economy as well):
1.  Keep building.  While it is prudent to slow discretionary spending, don’t curtail work on new products, [...]

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Sunday night is often pizza night at my house. Recently, I switched to ordering online (Papa John’s) and was pleased with the simplicity and convenience both on-screen and at the door upon delivery. Apparently, this is a growing trend and one the pizza industry is pleased about. According to Pizza Marketing Quarterly (who knew?), the average online pizza order [...]

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We recently partnered with a PR firm in another part of the country to work together on a new (national) piece of business.  The smoothness with which we do this now (as a result of having become comfortable with this model over the course of several years) reminds me of the key elements that must be in place [...]

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Last night was an amazing night in Knox County, Tennessee.
After a lot of controversy in local county government, it was finally election time. And the people of Knox County spoke…loudly and clearly. They registered and voted in record numbers. They got mad, which is bad, and went to the polls, which is good.
Virtually all those [...]

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In a recent newsletter of a business friend of mine, he drew an interesting analogy between weather forecasts and economic predictions.  Because of dire predictions of a big winter storm, he opted out of a meeting he really wanted to attend, only to find that by the time the meeting started, the storm had passed, [...]

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